Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Line wrap? Message-ID: <15186@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 18 Feb 90 01:15:21 GMT References: <2933.25D60BEC@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> <10183@hoptoad.uucp> <1990Feb17.171748.7106@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Lines: 17 In article <1990Feb17.171748.7106@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (Chris Lishka (King Arthur's roommate) ) writes: >I disagree. These days some people (like myself) read news on >workstations with windows. I can read news in a 1x1 or 150x150 (with >a tiny font) window. I would think that 80-column terminals are now >becoming "old technology." Well, it's still rude to post articles wider than the reasonably expectable width of most readers' screens. As other posters have pointed out, it's a problematic exercise to try and massage a wide posting on the reader's end to make it fit; you lose all sorts of format and readability. It should be the poster's responsibility to publish an article his readers can read without going blind. Superwide workstation windows are a wonderful thing for many purposes, but Usenet message exchange is probably not one of them. I think an RFC should address this.